2023: JAILED: LUDLOW WOMAN GIVEN COMMUNITY ORDER AFTER NINE YEAR OLD DISABLED SON DRUGGED.
A LUDLOW man has been sentenced to 32 months in prison after the court heard how he deliberately gave amphetamine to a disabled nine-year-old boy who had been left in his care.The boy’s mother Terri Smith, 38-years-old of Wheat Common in Ludlow also appeared in court and pleaded to guilty to charges of assault, ill-treatment, neglect, or abandoning a child or young person to cause unnecessary suffering or injury.
The court heard she did not take the boy to hospital until the next day.
Smith was sentenced to a community order for 18 months which, as part of its terms, included completing six months of alcohol abuse treatment and completing 20 days of rehabilitation which will involve completing various activities set by the Probation Service.
West Mercia Police said Smith had poisoned the child by giving them the drug.
